Shamlessly stolen from here. This is only a partial list because I've been in college for four years and I've written a lot of essays. These are just the ones I remember.

• Barack Obama's Native American policy
• Sex and fertility in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
• Artistic and societal freedom in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Lady of Shallot"
• Michel de Montaigne's influence on Shakespeare's The Tempest
• Nihilism in Shakespeare's King Lear
• The representation of Maori families in film
• The representation of Native Americans in film
• A comparison between Goethe's Faust and Edith Wharton's Newland Archer
• The female imagination in Eudora Welty's "A Piece of News" and "A Memory"
• Misogyny, violence, and the female experience in Raymond Carver's “So Much Water So Close to Home”
• Escapism in Raymond Carver's “Where I’m Calling From”
• A feminist reading of Emily Dickinson's poetry
• The representation of slaves and slavery in early civil war poetry
• The cultural "other" in Titus Andronicus and The Merchant of Venice
• Moll Cutpurse as (not) a protofeminist
• Tradition vs. innovation in Deena Larsen's "Disappearing Rain"
• The concept of authorship in hypertext
• Homosexuality in "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde" and "The Secret Sharer"
• The female body in T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland
• Same-sex desire in Katherine Mansfield's "Bliss"
• Relatability in children's fiction